After months of uncertainty amid FTC investigations, Google's acquisition of AdMob is finally totally 100% complete. Now, Google's shiny ads and Apple's shiny ads will compete for your eyeballs and you will try your best not to let them bother you too much. [Google Blog]

Apple versus Google. That's the major thread these days, two corporate monoliths duking it out for tech supremacy. But today, Apple's actions allowed Google to become the most powerful mobile ad company in the world.

Today, Google purchased AdMob for $750 million. AdMob provides mobile advertisements in places Google doesn't, like in apps or while web-browsing, but what it really means is that Google is staking its claim in the mobile ad world.